2013 Emmy Nomination List: ‘House of Cards’, ‘Game of Thrones’ & More

This morning, Neil Patrick Harris joined Aaron Paul to announce the 65th Primetime Emmy Award nominations. On top of both Harris and Paul obtaining nominations themselves, Netflix’s House of Cards, which received 9 nods, set a precedence by becoming the first nominated show to never air on television.

Still, it was FX’s American Horror Story: Asylum and HBO’s Game of Thrones which led the pack with 17 and 16 nominations, respectively. The highly-controversial yet still beloved Arrested Development season 4 received 3 nominations, including one for Jason Bateman and one for editing, which might surprise some who took issue with the formatting of the new season. NBC’s 30 Rock also nabbed 15 nominations for its final season.

The most interesting category, however, is Miniseries or Movie, which – thanks to Luther and Sherlock not airing any new episodes – allowed American Horror Story and Showtime’s The Big C: Hereafter to step in and take quite a few nominations. But even though FX and Showtime might have taken this category by storm, they’re still going to have to best HBO’s stable of strong TV movies in order to bring home the award.

You can check out the entire list of nominations below:

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Outstanding Series Breaking Bad Downton Abbey Game of Thrones House of Cards Mad Men